topic Re: Can I clip or define spline bounds to a hotlink? in Modeling

Can I clip or define spline bounds to a hotlink?

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 13:41:57 GMT

My site topography PLN is separated from my main PLN.

In PlotMaker, on my site plan, I need to somehow "hide" the contour lines from the site plan by using the profile of the roof in the main plan.

I cant see any options for clipping hotlinks, is there a way I can achieve this goal?

Re: Can I clip or define spline bounds to a hotlink?

Eduardo Rolon — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 05:17:23 GMT

With the fill tool set for "empty fill" or "airspace", Magic Wand the profiles you need.
Then select the fills "cut" and "paste" into the siteplan pln.
If necessary do an "arrange" "bring to front"

Re: Can I clip or define spline bounds to a hotlink?

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 02:23:36 GMT

rondari wrote:
In PlotMaker, on my site plan, I need to somehow "hide" the contour lines from the site plan by using the profile of the roof in the main plan.

I cant see any options for clipping hotlinks, is there a way I can achieve this goal?

If the roof plan has a fill with a white background pen you can layer the PMK/Drawing files within Plotmaker (Tools / Display Order /Bring to Front) and it will block out the parts of the site plan under it.

Check that Options / Preferences / Miscellaneous... is set to "Use fills background colour"

Check in the Drawing Settings for your placed roof plan that the frame is "Transparent Background" or the whole frame will block what is behind in the display order

Use hotspots to accurately align the two drawings.

This will work in Plotmaker 2 when you plot as well but the preview on the screen will not show it.

regards

Re: Can I clip or define spline bounds to a hotlink?

Erika Epstein — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 20:41:07 GMT

2 approaches come to mind.
1. Using Ejrolon & Bills approach but instead of the white pen for the fill, use the white pen for the contour around the fill and the last fill type "-1" (I call it the TV fill as that's what the symbol looks like). It will not print, but take on the color of your screen background, it will mask out what you want.

2. If your contour lines are on a separate layer, turn them off. Open the setting for that placed view.